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Development and technical paper
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13 Aug 2019
Development and technical paper |
| 13 Aug 2019
| 13 Aug 2019
A parallel workflow implementation for PEST version 13.6 in high-performance computing for WRF-Hydro version 5.0: a case study over the midwestern United States
Jiali Wang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700
South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Cheng Wang
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700
South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Vishwas Rao
Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Andrew Orr
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700
South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Eugene Yan
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700
South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700
South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
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Short summary
WRF-Hydro needs to be calibrated to optimize its output with respect to observations. However, when applied to a relatively large domain, both WRF-Hydro simulations and calibrations require intensive computing resources and are best performed in parallel. This study ported an independent calibration tool (parameter estimation tool – PEST) to high-performance computing clusters and adapted it to work with WRF-Hydro. The results show significant speedup for model calibration.
WRF-Hydro needs to be calibrated to optimize its output with respect to observations. However,...
